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- # The male monarch or ruler of an empire. #:In imperial China, it was often a responsibility of the emperor ...2 KB (210 words) - 21:06, 30 January 2024
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- Korea had been annexed by the Japanese Empire, and remained under the control ... they published the news, and eight members of the newpaper staff were jailed ...8 KB (1,228 words) - 15:58, 14 October 2022
- during the period following the signing of the Eulsa Treaty, when Korea ... in Haeju, Hwanghae Province (now part of North Korea). Born during the ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- Gwanghaegun or Prince Gwanghae (1574 – 1641) was the fifteenth king ... Gwanghaegun endeared himself to generations of Koreas for guiding ...11 KB (1,671 words) - 08:20, 27 July 2023
- served as the twenty-sixth and final king of the five-century long Korean ... an heir. The Dowager Queen Sinjeong, mother of King Heonjong, the king before ...17 KB (2,290 words) - 20:45, 31 December 2021
- formed in 1907 among the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, ... With the onset of World War I, the world would see the two alliances ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- His philological works include Wen Shi (文始 "The Origin of ... An activist as well as scholar, he produced a great amount of political ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- The Mongol invasions of Korea (1231 - 1273) consisted of a series ... the challenge, as they later rose during Japan's invasion of Korea ...9 KB (1,252 words) - 19:58, 9 November 2022
- |allegiance=Empire of Japan |serviceyears=1868-–1898 |rank=Field Marshal ... Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- |combatant1=[[Image:Flag of Japan (bordered).svg|22px]] Empire of Japan ... ambitions of Russian Empire and Empire of Japan, in Manchuria and Korea ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 10:20, 22 September 2023
- Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji Tennō, literally “emperor of ... but he presided over the Westernization of Japan by abolishing the feudal ...11 KB (1,750 words) - 18:29, 13 February 2024
- The Battle of Pasir Panjang initiated upon the advancement of elite ... the Malay archipelago for its key importance of protecting trade to China. ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Ganghwa Island (江華島), known as the first line of defense for ... island in South Korea, sits in the estuary of the Han River on the west coast ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... Aside from migration within the Empire of Japan or its puppet state ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- - 1662), was a military leader at the end of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. Born ... Zheng Chenggong was a prominent leader of the Ming loyalist movement ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- The Shōwa period (昭和時代, Shōwa jidai, "period of enlightened ... and Dutch) were threatening the Empire of Japan, and that the only solution ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- or Chandragupta Vikramaditya) stands as one of the most powerful emperors ... during his reign. He sponsored a circle of poets known as the Nine Gems ...13 KB (1,823 words) - 01:15, 4 December 2023
- and the planned invasion of the Empire of Japan; Churchill was pressing ... *Stalin agreed to enter the fight against the Empire of Japan within ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- The Dutch Empire is the name given to the various territories controlled ... global commerce during the second half of the seventeenth century. A ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- The Records of Three Kingdoms (三國志, 三国志, Sānguó Zhì ... Records of Three Kingdoms became the basis for a later historical ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 01:45, 8 December 2022
- in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine Empire, and from there along the ... in the Near East, spread to the Byzantine Empire, and from there along the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- A hierarchical Sinocentric model of international relations, dominated ... place at the center with varying degrees of success. The Sinocentric tribute ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 22:30, 29 January 2023
- of the Korean peninsula to the Empire of Japan.Qing Dynasty China cedes ... |combatant2=Japan|alt Empire of Japan |commander1=China|qing Li Hongzhang ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- The Allied Powers were a group of countries (also known as the Allies ... of China had been fighting the Empire of Japan since 1937. ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Born into a prosperous ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 was a conference organized by the ... . Much of the work of the Conference involved deciding which of the ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May" ... Mayo has become associated with celebration of Mexican-American culture. ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- Echigo province during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history and nearly ... At the age of fourteen, Kenshin was urged by Usami Sadamitsu and a ...16 KB (2,605 words) - 11:26, 18 April 2023
- Fort Pasir Panjang, or Labrador Battery, located at the southern tip ... the world, understood the importance of coaling stations and coastal ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor ... This genealogy shows the line of succession from the founding monarch ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- Japan's justification for abducting Korean, Chinese, and Southeast ... Some Japanese historians, using the diaries and testimony of military ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- battle occurred incidental to the mission of the General Sherman to attempt ... and passed a law that prohibited the return of shipwrecked seaman, especially ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- persons, the man Jesus and the divine Son of God, or Logos, rather than ... The Assyrian Church of the East refused to drop support for Nestorius ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- modern China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a ... and towards communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话 ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- Imperialism is the forceful extension of a nation's authority ... Yet, an interesting aspect of imperialism is that empires, both ancient ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- , is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With a population of ... was more than doubled by an influx of refugees from the north. Busan ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- Korean empress Queen Min was assassinated in the early hours of October ... instigated the assassination. The course of Korean history took a tragic ...8 KB (1,170 words) - 04:26, 23 March 2024
- 270px|Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of King Louis XV of France. circa ... Concubinage refers to the state of a woman or youth (known as the ...20 KB (2,953 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Min, married to King Gojong, the 26th King of the Joseon Dynasty. In 1902 ... Queen Min, an unlikely person to take the reins of Korea during the ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- Mitsui Group is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu ... shogunate and began operating a system of money exchanges. They received ...22 KB (3,120 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- Germany, Fascist Italy, and the Japanese empire, referred to themselves as ... States had declared war against the Empire of Japan. Japan had been annexing ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity. This blanket ... Orthodoxy split from the larger body of the Christian Church centuries ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... it, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan (the Meiji Constitution ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...39 KB (5,700 words) - 15:30, 6 May 2024
- The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English ... miles (1,583,000 sq km)—is considered one of the richest north temperate ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- , formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second ... Hokkaidō did not officially become part of Japan until 1868, and ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- considered the foremost intellectual leader of China during the first two ... writings influenced an entire generation of Chinese young people. Liang ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- |p1 = Empire of Japan |flag_p1 = Flag_of_Japan_-_variant.svg ... At the end of the Second World War, a ravaged Japan was occupied by ...33 KB (4,957 words) - 10:14, 11 March 2023
- Dutch) chartered by the States-General of the Netherlands to expand trade ... its possessions and the debt being taken over by the government of ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), July 2 ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- is an entity responsible for the money of its country or of its group ... Though the primary purpose of a central bank is to act as a financial ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ... a businessman. After a short experience of office work proved him to be ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's ... Balhae occupied southern parts of Manchuria (Northeast China) and ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1923. Part of the wide White Russian resistance movement, the Volunteer ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 18:55, 31 October 2022
- who is most famous for his mission to Japan, which opened that country ... he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- born Hiyoshi-maru日吉丸; coming of age (Genpuku) as Kinoshita ... Hideyoshi is noted in Japanese history for a number of political and ...22 KB (3,284 words) - 12:36, 18 April 2023
- began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan ... Korea has sometimes been described as a shrimp between two whales ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- 1586) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. The uncle ... his goals and slowly expanded his world of relationships and issues. ...6 KB (961 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- , born Yáng Yùhuán (楊玉環), was one of the Four Beauties of ancient ... been a court favorite, began the Rebellion of Anshi, taking the capital of ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- a multinational automaker headquartered in Japan that manufactures automobiles ... In the 1950s, the management of Nissan made a conscious decision to ...26 KB (3,647 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- and the Diamond Vehicle) refers to a family of Buddhist lineages found primarily ... While Vajrayana Buddhism is a part of Tibetan Buddhism, in that it ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- system known as Civil law. For the area of law in common law countries ... Civil law, or continental law, is the predominant system of law in ...15 KB (2,321 words) - 22:28, 10 December 2023
- has such standing. There are also a variety of ways such endorsement occurs ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... However, Korea's history has been one of constant struggle between forces ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- and fresh sound rooted in the traditions of earlier country stars such ... depended on his camaraderie and talents of his partner and best friend ...12 KB (1,785 words) - 19:09, 17 February 2022
- Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, Order of the Garter (KG), Order of the Bath ... invade and liberate Malaya when the Emperor of Japan surrendered. Noted for ...24 KB (3,728 words) - 18:26, 17 April 2023
- The Ethiopian Empire, also known as Abyssinia, in what is now Ethiopia ... In the twentieth century, the last emperor of Ethiopia took on special ...17 KB (2,624 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Empire of Japan controlled the ... Union|border=1px solid black #AE4242|Empire of Japan|border=1px solid black]] ...39 KB (5,508 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- occurred in China during the final years of the Qing Dynasty from November ... and China was defeated by Britain. In view of the weakness of the Qing government ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- A tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. Derived from the ... Most tombs reflect a system of religious beliefs, and are used by ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- #039;s call for the immediate independence of India. Its aim was to bring ... Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders spent ...20 KB (3,080 words) - 15:58, 7 December 2022
- The term Barbarian does not derive from the name of any tribe or cultural ... Although barbarian cultures generally worked against the advancement ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- from 538 to 710, was a period in the history of Japan during which the capital ... during the Asuka period, borrowing systems of political and social organization ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
- was a Korean independence activist and one of the early leaders of the Korean ... Many consider Ahn Chang-ho to be one of the key moral and philosophical ...16 KB (2,495 words) - 06:55, 16 June 2023
- Tulip is the common name for any member of the thousands of varieties ... While the flowers advance the tulip species' individual purpose ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- France had colonial possessions, in various forms, from the beginning ... Currently, the remnants of this large empire are various islands and ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture ... they have adopted their values and standards of behavior. The problem is that ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- as Gando, refers to northeastern parts of the People's Republic ... Today, most of the region resides in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 08:52, 3 April 2024
- The French campaign against Korea of 1866, known as Byeonginyangyo ... Though Joseon Dynasty Korea maintained a policy of isolation from ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- Crucifixion was an ancient method of execution practiced in the Roman ... The purpose of crucifixion was to provide a gruesome public way to ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- Fascist Italian state and the Ethiopian Empire (also called Abyssinia). ... The Italian Empire was officially recognized by the Empire of Japan ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... North Korea and South Korea. The borders of Korea have fluctuated throughout ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose ... The purpose of Jikji was to assist Buddhist monks in teaching Zen ...14 KB (2,230 words) - 01:10, 9 February 2023
- quot; comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family members ... The legend of Gija has left clearer historical tracks than the myth ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- An invasion is a military offensive consisting of all, or large parts ... territory and its people being invaded. Some of these consequences can be beneficial ...33 KB (5,040 words) - 11:07, 6 March 2024
- Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a noose ... considered a rather inhumane method of execution it was the method ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- associated with the establishment of Confucianism as the official ... are preserved in the Standard History of the Western Han Dynasty (Han ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
- North Korea and the Manchurian region of China. At 2,744 m, it is the ... One of the highest crater lakes in the world, called Heaven Lake ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration ... Korea. Such a Soviet-supported invasion of South Korea did occur in June ...14 KB (1,983 words) - 08:55, 28 January 2024
- Ancient philosophy is philosophy in antiquity, or before the end of ... concerns that continue to be major parts of the traditions today. ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- Most of the sixteen Kurosawa–Mifune films are considered cinema ... Japanese parents, and grew up in the Chinese city of Dalian ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 04:42, 1 May 2023
- one" or "March 1") was one of the earliest manifestations ... demonstrations failed to accomplish the goal of effecting independence, they ...28 KB (4,439 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- preceded the Ming dynasty in the historiography of China. had nominal control over the entire Mongol Empire (stretching from Eastern ...21 KB (3,202 words) - 21:34, 4 June 2023
- An auction is the process of buying and selling things by offering ... ==History of the Auction== The generally accepted first auction occurred ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 05:57, 10 January 2023
- and services they offer as well as the type of students they attract. Despite ... four-year programs. However, the advent of community colleges undeniably ...21 KB (3,019 words) - 00:18, 8 January 2024
- In East Asia, in lands such as Japan, honor was seen as a high duty ... Honor has been defined in more modern times as the evaluation of a ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- launched by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. The Guadalcanal ... and the U.S. west coast. However, the Empire of Japan continued to expand ...54 KB (8,339 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- The term military-industrial complex (MIC) refers to the combination ... States government (especially the Department of Defense). Such collusion includes ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 16:24, 13 September 2023
- he organized mass protests against the use of nuclear power. ... ntsofjapanliv00west/page/294 Giants of Japan: The Lives of Japan& ...45 KB (5,943 words) - 21:09, 28 September 2023
- called the Tokugawa period, is a division of Japanese history running from ... The Edo period is known as the beginning of the early modern period ...38 KB (5,709 words) - 18:15, 12 February 2024
- award for study at the University of Oxford. This scholarship program ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- The Punic Wars were a series of three wars fought between Rome and ... their Phoenician ancestry). The main cause of the Punic Wars was the clash ...26 KB (4,140 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937-September 9, 1945) was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- traditional societies in certain regions of the world, particularly among ... rulings against it, is the existence of an "outcaste" group ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces ... Defeat at the Battle of Hakodate broke this last holdout and left ...49 KB (7,292 words) - 13:40, 28 April 2020
- The Battle of Tannenberg in 1914, was a decisive engagement between ... this plan was the Russians' lack of a quality railroad network ...18 KB (2,883 words) - 01:37, 26 September 2023
- impressions thereof that are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents ... the Privy Seal in Constitution of the Empire of Japan（photographic negative）]] ...36 KB (5,590 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
- who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike on the United States Pacific Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Empire of Japan ...60 KB (9,048 words) - 18:23, 21 August 2023
- in the traditional Confucian system of examinations, he quickly became ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...26 KB (3,844 words) - 14:50, 5 December 2023
- 1884 to 1914 within the German colonial empire, consisting of the northeastern ... From the point of view of the local population, the Germans left little ...15 KB (2,339 words) - 22:48, 4 December 2022
- , 772–846) was a poet of the T'ang dynasty (618–907) in China ... distributed to ensure their survival. Two of his most famous works are the ...14 KB (2,277 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 ... Ming rule saw the construction of a vast navy, including four-masted ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- harden, burn, or dry materials. The firing of kilns requires a specific fuel ... Primitive kilns date back to the early days of civilization and are ...23 KB (3,896 words) - 23:03, 3 March 2023
- primarily in the newly independent states of Central Asia. Large Korean ... A separate ethnic Korean community lives on the island of Sakhalin ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 04:36, 4 March 2023
- Max Black (February 24, 1909 Baku, Russian Empire [present-day Azerbaijan ... he developed an interest in the philosophy of mathematics. Russell, Ludwig ...9 KB (1,265 words) - 00:54, 9 November 2022
- Wake Island, and six months after the Empire of Japan's attack on Pearl ... as the most important naval engagement of World War IIU.S. Navy, [http://www ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing ... Witte served under the last two emperors of Russia, Alexander III ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868 – July 17, 1918) ( ... During a notable trip to the Empire of Japan, a failed assassination ...28 KB (4,350 words) - 23:31, 14 November 2022
- |country= Empire of Japan |allegiance= Empire of Japan |branch=Combined ... the Japanese Navy, was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947 ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- Eastern) dragon. Unlike the Western dragon of Europe that is representative ... dragon is benevolent and powerful, bringer of good fortune. Its image was ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- a Scottish merchant and banker, the founder of the Bank of England and an ... He remains famous for his idea of the Darien Scheme, the Scottish ...10 KB (1,463 words) - 10:38, 11 May 2023
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... == History of Imperial Examinations == [[Image:Palastexamen-SongDynastie ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ... Huangbo developed the concept of oneness of beings, one of the central ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 20:57, 7 February 2024
- and the informal name for the London firm of Christie, Manson & Woods ... for several years, netting global sales of $4.67 billion in 2006. Despite ...9 KB (1,246 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- quot; But technically, it is a specific form of sovereign state (a political ... It was given impetus by the throwing off of kings (for example, in the ...38 KB (5,803 words) - 04:09, 11 March 2023
- in the "National System" type of capitalism. Although greatly ... in 1789. Unwilling to follow the occupation of his father, who was a prosperous ...19 KB (2,994 words) - 11:05, 11 April 2024
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was the peace treaty that officially ... powers started on May 7, the anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ... (愛新覺羅) ruling family was the last Emperor of China between ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 03:35, 7 December 2022
- American Empire is a term relating to the political, economic, military ... The sources and proponents of this concept range from classical Marxist ...48 KB (7,076 words) - 03:33, 24 July 2023
- Buckwheat is the common name for plants in two genera of the dicot ... Despite the common name and the grain-like use of the crop, buckwheats ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 17:20, 30 April 2020
- historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations ... nation-state or ethnic groups as the unit of history, but from civilizations ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including ... Roland Barthes was born on November 12, 1915 in the town of Cherbourg ...25 KB (3,880 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
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- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island ... the Pacific campaign against the Empire of Japan necessarily meant drastic ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
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- As such, he will be the spiritual successor of the historic Śākyamuni Buddha ... The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya is found in the canonical ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
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- and Western ideas to the Chinese Empire in the sixteenth century ... gwang, who later helped shape the foundation of the Silhak movement in Korea. ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation ... Some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign of the Second ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 23:16, 3 March 2023
- not necessarily round), lustrous object made of nacre (mother-of-pearl) that ... Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks when ...20 KB (3,138 words) - 19:56, 22 April 2023
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- in captivity. The Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan also did not treat prisoners ... In the Pacific War, the Empire of Japan did neither sign nor follow ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- Dutch Revolt (1568–1648), was the revolt of the Seventeen Provinces in ... by the Spanish in the south caused many of its financial, intellectual ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
- [[Image:Costumes of Slaves or Serfs from the Sixth to the Twelfth ... Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ...31 KB (4,884 words) - 09:56, 26 January 2023
- ) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... The earliest use of the term "Uyghur" (Weihu), during the ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
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- The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany ...38 KB (5,622 words) - 04:35, 27 February 2023
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- |combatant2=Empire of Japan |commander1=Holland Smith |commander2=Tadamichi ... The Battle of Iwo Jima (February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945) was ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
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- in Asia, notably Manchuria. The Empire of Japan first invaded Manchuria ... of China (1912–1949) and the Empire of Japan. The beginning of the ...57 KB (8,103 words) - 19:47, 9 February 2022
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- reflecting the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) ... Idate Masamune, King of Wôshû in the Empire of Japan, suppliantly say: ...57 KB (8,893 words) - 08:38, 20 January 2024
- to be among the best Chinese literature of the period. Chang's work ... her degree, Hong Kong fell to the Empire of Japan on December 25, 1941 ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- Most commonly, rivers flow on the surface of the land, but there are also ... ==Origins of river water== A river may have its source in a spring ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 01:43, 15 December 2022
- The Federated States of Micronesia is an island nation located in ... The Federated States of Micronesia is located in the region known ...23 KB (3,329 words) - 01:56, 26 March 2024
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- Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...23 KB (3,363 words) - 15:55, 11 August 2023
- Asia. He is credited with the translation of some 1,330 fascicles of scriptures ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- labor are collective terms for a variety of work relations in which people ... The institution of the corveé was and remains an accepted form of ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 06:20, 1 April 2024
- Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two unarmed persons ... Physical techniques which embody the style of wrestling are clinching ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- The Buddhas of Bamyan ( بت های باميان - but hay-e bamiyaan) were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas ...24 KB (3,495 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- is the rustic 125-acre mountain retreat of the President of the United ... name from Dwight Eisenhower, in honor of his grandson, Dwight David ...11 KB (1,604 words) - 18:57, 25 November 2023
- was a term for the military nobility in pre-industrial Japan who were ... spiritual ethos. Almost all the key leaders of the Meiji Restoration were ...49 KB (7,556 words) - 03:06, 23 December 2022
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- Genghis Khan (1162 – 1227), the founder of the largest contiguous ... While his image in much of the world is that of a ruthless, bloodthirsty ...50 KB (8,058 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- international operations with hundreds of airplanes offering many services ... The setting up of airline services is among the most important developments ...33 KB (4,986 words) - 07:02, 16 June 2023
- The League of Nations was an international organization founded as ... After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- | combatant2=Japan|alt Empire of Japan | commander1=United States ... 26, 1944, between the Allies and the Empire of Japan. The Allies commenced ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- surfacing throughout the very early years of the last century, the 1907 ... The futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- theos, god) refers to belief in, or worship of, multiple gods or deities. ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
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- Decolonization refers to the undoing of colonialism, the establishment ... been a colonial possession of the empire of Japan before UN trusteeship. ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- surrounding territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing. The Qing ... with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height of Imperial Chinese influence ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos (Keeling ... The geographical location and history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown ... The museum's collection offers an unparalleled overview of modern ...16 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the ... Angkor and the Khmer Empire practiced Hinduism, most likely the largest ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- Tasman is best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service ... The Enlightenment had placed humanity at the center of the world, ...12 KB (1,843 words) - 04:46, 14 June 2023
- Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory ... Negatively, attitudes of racial, cultural, religious and civilization ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South ... When the Spanish landed in 1531, the Inca empire extended over a vast ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- Leadership is the ability to lead or someone who is the head of a ... Understanding leadership has been the source of much research and ...25 KB (3,568 words) - 18:44, 25 October 2022
- [[Image:Pirate_Flag_of_Rack_Rackham.svg|thumb|250px|right|The flag ... at sea, or outside the normal jurisdiction of any state, by an agent without ...24 KB (3,715 words) - 06:18, 24 November 2022
- by the men's national soccer teams of the member nations of Fédération ... the World Cup Finals. The current format of the Finals involves 32 national ...41 KB (6,235 words) - 19:26, 13 March 2024
- Qiao (房喬) but went by the courtesy name of Xuanling, ... formally Duke Wenzhao of Liang (梁文昭公), was the lead editor ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 22:43, 13 July 2022
- Radish is the common name for herbaceous plant, Raphanus sativus, ... varying in size, color, shape, and duration of required cultivation time. ...16 KB (2,416 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- The term also is used simply as the name of the spice, and often in the ... Cloves are one of the world's most important, popular, and useful ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- shaped dynasty in Korea after 1000 years of political influence. Goryeo ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...19 KB (2,644 words) - 18:12, 26 December 2022
- Cremation, or the practice of burning the dead, refers to the disposal ... Cremation practices may be used for a variety of reasons. Some cultures ...24 KB (3,818 words) - 00:19, 15 January 2023
- Ming) T'ai Tsung, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty (明朝) of ... Though he was despotic and ruthless, Yongle is considered one of the ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- – January 9, 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the ... moral failings. The leaders and the people of Post-revolutionary France lacked ...48 KB (7,305 words) - 01:24, 11 November 2022
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... been adopted by the Liao Dynasty (Khitan Empire) founded by Abaoji, that ...23 KB (3,109 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- a well-known Russian revolutionary, and one of the leading figures of nineteenth ... in 1865 and helped to formulate many of the philosophical principles ...43 KB (6,370 words) - 17:48, 9 November 2022
- , Hanyu Pinyin: bào'ēnsì, English: Temple of Thanksgiving ... in the renovations. Those advances come out of Buddhism's tenet that ...16 KB (2,404 words) - 08:12, 24 November 2022
- ) is the capital of Uzbekistan and the Tashkent Province. The city ... past remain, most destroyed as a result of the late nineteenth century ...23 KB (3,205 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- ) is the capital, largest city, and the economic center of Qatar. ... Education has been a major focus of the Qatari government for many ...17 KB (2,415 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. It is ... Europe and Asia without circumnavigation of Africa. Before its opening ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- for dancers and stimulated a wave of creative experimentation in ... school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous pupils was ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, "People" + Mapu, "of the ... their independence against the Inca empire, and later the Spanish, for ...21 KB (3,210 words) - 11:10, 9 March 2023
- The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin ... with differing objectives, the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 02:51, 19 April 2023
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... and nineteenth centuries as well as a base of British economic exploitation ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- until 393 C.E.. The Greek games were one of the splendors of the ancient ... (IOC) was founded in 1894, and the first of the IOC's Olympic Games ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before ... A divorce must be certified by a court of law, as a legal action is ...63 KB (9,390 words) - 15:32, 29 January 2024
- or other aquatic organisms. The activity of catching the aquatic species ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- end. Therefore history is not a series of accidents or merely the story ... ==The Goal of History== The goal of history is restoration or "re ...26 KB (3,993 words) - 02:18, 18 April 2023
- Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies ... One of Europe's oldest cities, with a history of 7000 years, ...32 KB (4,559 words) - 20:15, 20 January 2022
- |combatant2=Empire of Japan|size=22px Empire of Japan |commander1=Alexander ... The Battle for Henderson Field, also known as the Battle of Henderson ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including ... the Sundance Kid (1969), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), The ...38 KB (5,689 words) - 17:42, 21 November 2022
- The date commonly given for the start of the war is September 1, 1939 ... The Allies were initially made up of Poland, the British Empire, France ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- Polish statesman, Field Marshal, first Chief of State (1918–1922) and dictator ... Jerzy Jan Lerski. Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966–1945. (Greenwood ...60 KB (8,706 words) - 05:53, 10 May 2024
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- Boar, or wild boar, is an omnivorous, gregarious mammal, Sus scrofa ... The boar is native across much of Central Europe, the Mediterranean ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 23:54, 11 January 2023
- singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. Between 1960 and ... This path defined the sixties generation and Lennon was an archetype ...28 KB (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned ... Plato's account of Atlantis, believed to be the first, is found ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- and statesman. He is regarded as the founder of the Chinese Red Army (the forerunner ... Zhu De participated in the Revolution of 1911, then became an officer ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 15:28, 3 December 2022
- 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the ... next two years, war with Italy and the Empire of Japan followed. A major consequence ...35 KB (5,207 words) - 21:42, 8 February 2024
- CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United ... One of the pioneer radio networks, from its earliest days CBS established ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 22:42, 7 January 2024
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... priest and missionary and founding member of the Society. Xavier, however ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat four ... directly to law school at the University of Alabama in 1937. After receiving ...23 KB (3,309 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- Japan (日本, Nihon or Nippon, officially日本国, Nihon-koku or ... Meiji era reforms transformed the Empire of Japan into an industrialized ...89 KB (12,871 words) - 15:44, 4 February 2022
- in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral ... Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative ...51 KB (7,336 words) - 04:32, 11 March 2023
- Wallis and Futuna, is a group of three volcanic tropical islands—Wallis ... The Wallis Archipelago is the most populated of the island group and ...20 KB (2,970 words) - 18:47, 17 April 2023
- ; French for "Beautiful Epoch") is a period of French and ... Age" in contrast to the horrors of the Napoleonic Wars and World ...38 KB (5,417 words) - 23:52, 28 April 2023
- This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... and nation in East Asia. It is one of the world's oldest civilizations ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution varies in different ... life, and lineage, is commodified, the value of a human being is inevitably ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- The British Empire is the most extensive empire in world history and ... By 1921, the British Empire ruled a population of between 470 and ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other ... term has been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- luxurious textiles. Silk is mostly composed of the insoluble protein fibroin ... important silk is obtained from the cocoons of the the domesticated moth Bombyx ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- units equipped with tanks serve the role of heavy cavalry and belong to ... Throughout human history, the development of armor has always run ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms ( t=三國演義|s=三国演义|p=sānguó ... events in the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three ...29 KB (4,917 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from ... From the age of 12, George served in the Royal Navy, but upon the ...39 KB (5,812 words) - 13:04, 14 November 2022
- The kingdom of Ayutthaya ( อยุธยา I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... Chinese dominate almost all the economies of Southeast Asia, and have sometimes ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- Espionage is the practice of obtaining confidential information through ... ==Types of Espionage== ===Industrial Espionage=== Industrial espionage ...16 KB (2,298 words) - 12:20, 21 January 2023
- Vinegar is a sour liquid produced from the fermentation of diluted ... the sugars are broken down in the absence of oxygen (i.e., fermented) by ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 20:25, 3 May 2023
- North Korea immediately end its invasion of South Korea, the catalyst for ... to that point had been occupied by the Empire of Japan, was divided along the ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent of the population of the People ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation ... Alliance, which would enable the Empire of Japan to be victorious during ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- attitudes towards minorities. Kipling, of course, was a man of his times ... Despite Kipling's troubled history, he has contributed a number ...14 KB (2,319 words) - 17:43, 22 December 2022
- Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism ... Fascism led to Italy's support of Hitler's Germany during ...34 KB (5,044 words) - 06:23, 11 March 2024
- , dráō). The enactment of drama in theater, performed by actors ... between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- 275px|An African-American man drinks out of the "colored only" ... Racism refers to various beliefs maintaining that the essential value ...36 KB (5,283 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- for educational reform, and President of the Board of Trade. He later ... Several monuments honor his legacy in the City of Birmingham. Throughout ...63 KB (9,535 words) - 21:17, 6 May 2024
- Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern ... The one-time fishing village of Shenzhen was singled out by late Chinese ...24 KB (3,404 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila ... plant that grew on the marshy shores of the bay. In the sixteenth century ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Located on the west ... years. However, it only became the capital of the nation after Sri Lanka ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- The foreign policy of the United States is officially conducted by ... The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States ...43 KB (6,372 words) - 11:58, 3 May 2023
- the Atlantic Ocean, in 1492, in search of a direct sea route to the Indies ... Columbus' voyage took place during the early decades of the European ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... 147° east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- politician and reformer, and a recent leader of the Communist Party of China ... and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- support came from Communist China. Most of the fighting took place in ... French Union forces included colonial troops from the whole former ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- A scroll is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper which has been ... While a scroll is a roll of paper, papyrus, or parchment, a codex ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three ... Due to the north-south split during this period of Korean history ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 23:42, 11 November 2022
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the ... The Russian Revolution became the first in a series of Communist revolutions ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- Cairo (Arabic: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt. Cairo is the ... Modern Cairo remains the cultural center of the Arabic world, and ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 18:18, 25 November 2023
- South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- Christmas or Christmas Day commemorates and celebrates the birth of ... It is a contraction meaning "Christ's mass." The name ...30 KB (4,439 words) - 14:09, 7 May 2024
- Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is an emirate in the Middle ... long, and is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut in the United States. ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 21:09, 14 April 2023
- found in formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons ... sources. In a typical barrel 84 percent (37 of 42 gallons) of the hydrocarbons ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- that name. In reality, the movement consists of several distinct organizations ... itself contributed towards the development of human consciousness of a world ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing ... Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of ...30 KB (4,767 words) - 07:53, 28 January 2024
- The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, "S.J.," "S ... the "Black Pope" after the color of the Jesuit habit) has occasionally ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- | above = List of art movements | group1 = Traditional/Premodern ... * Guild of Romanists * Dutch Golden Age ** Delft School ...20 KB (2,252 words) - 17:58, 4 April 2023
- defeated Nazi Germany, Italy and the Empire of Japan in World War II. A child of economic and social privilege, he overcame a crippling ...67 KB (10,424 words) - 05:13, 9 April 2024
- A pyramid's design, with the majority of the weight closer to the ground ... Civilizations in many parts of the world have built pyramids, generally ...37 KB (5,368 words) - 21:28, 9 November 2023
- A cult, strictly speaking, is a particular system of religious worship ... globally controversial. The rise and fall of several groups known for mass ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 06:44, 11 January 2024
- cartoons for frescoes in the new Palace of Westminster (1843), and which ... A cartoon is a form of expression, or communication, that refers to ...17 KB (2,492 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States ... It lies along the Pacific Ocean at San Diego Bay just north of the ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- bend in each arm. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates ... Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma ...40 KB (5,959 words) - 00:36, 27 February 2023
- Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a representative democratic ... Ecuador is a multicultural, multiethnic nation–state with one of ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- order to facilitate the study and analysis of history, understanding current ... continuous and not generalized, all systems of periodization are more or less ...29 KB (4,535 words) - 16:10, 29 December 2020
- The Korean War is the name given to a civil war between the nations ... Finally, after massive swings in favor of both the North and the South ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- also is used to refer to just the seed of this tree or to the ground ... In addition to being the source of the spices nutmeg and mace, Myristica ...17 KB (2,574 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible ... Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
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- The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- (香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... As part of its military campaign in World War II, the Empire of Japan ...55 KB (8,196 words) - 16:16, 25 January 2023
- Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences of movements ... rhythm, balance, flexibility and agility of the gymnast, demanding an intense ...18 KB (2,771 words) - 07:20, 28 July 2023
- In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- Korea's first religion, the religion of Dangun, the mythical founder ... as world religions gain dominance in an empire. Shamanism in Korea has remained ...34 KB (5,119 words) - 03:57, 8 December 2022
- Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... The site of ancient port cities and a possession of several empires ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- India, officially the British Indian Empire, and internationally and ... by individual rulers under the paramountcy of the British Crown. Prior to ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- as Buddhists. Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs, and spiritual ... Most Buddhist traditions share the goal of overcoming dukkha (suffering ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African ... Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- dynasty of China, and ceded to the Empire of Japan in 1895. Following the ... were ceded in full sovereignty to the Empire of Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki ...97 KB (13,790 words) - 00:28, 4 January 2024
- At the Fifteenth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet ... To oversee the radical transformation of the Soviet Union, the party ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- producer, best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles, one of the most ... Not the most outspoken or public member of The Beatles, George was ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
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- The history of agriculture is the story of humankind's development ... Because of agriculture, cities as well as trade relations between ...39 KB (5,853 words) - 00:03, 19 November 2020
- The State of Kuwait ( الكويت ) is a small constitutional monarchy on the coast of the Persian Gulf ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- , Austro-Bavarian: Weăn,) is the capital of Austria, and also one ... Today Vienna is a center of European culture, with more than one hundred ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia ... "marching swastika" in the center of the cross and reinstituted ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- with George Harrison lead guitarist of The Beatles. Together with ... he rejected the drug abuse and other aspects of the hippie culture, remaining ...35 KB (4,906 words) - 19:06, 16 April 2023
- 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945–1953 ... Truman, whose personal style contrasted sharply with that of the patrician ...47 KB (7,091 words) - 13:31, 24 January 2023
- operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill ... Chemical weapons are classified as weapons of mass destruction by ...61 KB (9,020 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one's ... morally and legally, consuming the flesh of one already dead raises different ...27 KB (4,188 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- [[Image:protocomicstrip.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Example of a proto-comic ... A comic strip is a drawing or sequence of drawings that tells a story ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 07:56, 14 January 2023
- [[Image:Caslon-schriftmusterblatt.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|A specimen ... Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design ...43 KB (6,355 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name used for the third ... Often tolerant of religious minorities, Jewish life flourished during ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- The Russian Revolution of 1905 began as a wave of mass political and ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten ... Gandhi but was unable to avoid the Partition of India, although he would have ...36 KB (5,344 words) - 04:07, 4 November 2022
- A siege is a military blockade of a city or fortress with the intent ... the Middle East show archaeological evidence of having had fortified city walls ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- or other substances. Jewelry is made out of almost every material known ... Whether used as currency, protection, or fashion, jewelry is one of ...33 KB (4,967 words) - 20:02, 13 September 2023
- Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Intermarriage is the marriage between two people of different backgrounds ... Intermarriage is a form of exogamy, or marrying outside of one's ...21 KB (3,227 words) - 12:55, 7 February 2023
- or oscillate. The most common applications of fans are for creature comfort ... fan), winnowing (such as separating chaff of cereal grains), removing dust ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- 1997 to 2007, he was the Bahamian Ambassador to Japan. In 1964, Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of ...42 KB (5,991 words) - 14:35, 27 January 2023
- Landscape Painting in the American tradition, depicts the scenery ... In the woods, is perpetual Youth. The currents of the Universal Being ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- at very high pressures beyond the range of unaided human survivability ... Submarines encompass one of the largest ranges in capabilities of ...65 KB (10,100 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... areas useful to society. Situated in an area of farming, conservation, and ...42 KB (5,828 words) - 03:33, 8 January 2024
- Human sacrifice is the act of killing human beings as part of a religious ... Paralleling the various practices of animal sacrifice and of religious ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- Paris is the capital city of France, situated on the River Seine, ... between land and river trade routes in lands of abundant agriculture had made ...70 KB (10,606 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- (1948), outraged conservative critics as one of the first major American novels ... used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- 6, 1781 – July 5, 1826) was the founder of the city of Singapore (now ... Raffles was born on the ship Ann off the coast of Jamaica. Little ...33 KB (5,257 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- historian, best known as "the father of containment" and was a ... Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the ...39 KB (5,908 words) - 17:04, 10 April 2023
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... preservation standards. As with the case of other notable museums, the ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany ... In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included ...51 KB (7,700 words) - 13:06, 10 March 2023
- The Republic of Moldova (Republica Moldova) is a landlocked country ... Historically part of the Principality of Moldavia, it was annexed ...57 KB (8,247 words) - 19:49, 9 November 2022
- Nederland is the European section of the Kingdom of the Netherlands ... s-Gravenhage) is the Netherlands' seat of government (regeringszetel ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- one thousand years and ended with the rise of Christianity. It is considered ... The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential ...48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
- The Principality of Monaco, more commonly known as Monaco, is a sovereign ... behind Vatican City. It has a population of 32,410 in a total land area ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 23:17, 28 March 2024
- that contains information on all branches of knowledge or a particular branch ... (pron. enkyklos paideia), literally 'the things of boys/child ...30 KB (4,429 words) - 15:48, 26 September 2023
- A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per ... There are several famous cases of poll taxes in history, notably a ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- 250px|Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912 ... In general, the term fashion refers to a prevailing mode of expression ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good ... and Aristotle dealt with virtues in terms of character traits of the soul ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- and statehood or the outright overthrow of the extant government. Wars ... to life and property. For example, the Empire of Japan gave an unconditional ...40 KB (6,411 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital of numerous dynasties and governments ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes.] ... Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- named for its primary component. It consists of a pigment dissolved in water ... The technique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 23:18, 3 May 2023
- July 23, 1885) was the commanding general of the combined Union armies during ... Called to Washington to assume command of the Union armies after his ...47 KB (7,335 words) - 03:32, 17 November 2023
- Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern ... Kingdom" loosely describes a number of various dynastic polities, ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest ... among different ethnic groups has been part of the country's history ...42 KB (5,904 words) - 22:53, 20 November 2023
- 1989) was an American classical pianist of Ukrainian birth. In his prime ... born in Kiev, Ukraine (under the Russian Empire), but some sources have given ...22 KB (3,176 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2023
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminum, with the ... the decorative tiles adorning Turkish places of worship and homes for hundreds ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 00:26, 3 May 2023
- Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria ... newly recruited French armies in a series of battles fought across northern ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid ... The origin of the battleship can be found in the Great ships built ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- ), a form of ritual dance drama, originated in the Southern Indian ... Krishnattom and Ramanattom, emerged as part of Vaishnavism, when cultural ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was the unsuccessful ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- ==Evolution of the glyph== like an uppercase H with the bottom half of the left line and the upper ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- is concerned with the ordering and design of settlements, from the smallest ... Urban planning is the integration of the disciplines of land-use planning ...40 KB (5,976 words) - 22:28, 13 November 2022
- system and is named after the Roman god of war. It is also known as the ... and seasonal cycles are similar to those of the Earth. Of all the planets ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along ... dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard of living during the twentieth ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- A coin is a metal token, usually in the shape of a disc, often of ... Historically, a great number of coinage metals, including alloys, ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Medicine is the science and practice of establishing the diagnosis ... Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, prognosis, ...53 KB (7,336 words) - 04:05, 9 November 2022
- Wilhelm II ; Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia (January ... the one hand, he was unhappy with the scale of the war. On the other hand ...73 KB (11,213 words) - 11:59, 5 May 2023
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon ... Widely worshiped among Hindus as the lord of beginnings, Ganesha is honored ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...34 KB (4,913 words) - 21:02, 20 July 2023
- Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen ... Victoria, a small town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, on December ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...83 KB (12,275 words) - 11:52, 3 May 2023
- by admirers, and derided as an advocate of politically motivated murder ... and union organizing. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national and social turmoil ... Revolutions in 1917 caused a total collapse of the Russian Empire, and the ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- Maine and Vermont were considered part of other colonies at the time ... freedom. Massachusetts was also one of the key colonies in the events ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- all wars. Some question the appropriateness of the term “world war” because ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- in Iran, was a war between the armed forces of Iraq and Iran lasting from ... September 22, 1980, following a long history of border disputes. The conflict ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... in that the latter refers to the corruption of specific religious doctrines ...23 KB (3,595 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte ... allies stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany during World War II. ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- into France and Imperial Russia; for part of his life, he was also a Romanian ... A lifelong collaborator of Leon Trotsky, he was a prominent activist ...62 KB (8,909 words) - 22:59, 3 March 2023
- Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of ... terrestrial eruption of the twentieth century. Successful predictions ...24 KB (3,489 words) - 17:08, 10 November 2022
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 14:00, 3 May 2024
- in the twentieth century. When one side of a conflict participates in ... The threat of total devastation to the earth and humankind through ...24 KB (3,815 words) - 17:18, 4 November 2022
- or other ideological goals. Most definitions of terrorism include only those ... labels to condemn violence or threat of violence by certain actors ...40 KB (5,766 words) - 14:59, 30 April 2023
- Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... The varying forms of football have several aspects in common. They ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. The United Mexican ... 14th largest in the world. With a population of almost 109 million, it is the ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- Great One," he is considered one of the best ever to have played ... Gretzky signed with the Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association ...25 KB (3,378 words) - 23:22, 3 May 2023
- thumb|300px|right|The Louvre in Paris, one of the largest and most famous ... later made public. There are different types of museums all over the world ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 02:36, 11 March 2023
- Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North ... Egypt is famous for its ancient civilization and some of the world ...47 KB (7,144 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- == Evolution of the glyph == Image:Evolution4glyph.png Indians would add a horizontal line on top of the numeral, and the Kshatrapa ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
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- the Middle East, located at the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. ... country was considered the banking capital of the Arab world and was widely ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... and Australian troops, fighting the Empire of Japan. When the Japanese landed ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- , is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that ... Despite these disparities, the common feature of apartment construction ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- Bosnia and Herzegovina is a republic of the western Balkans Peninsula ... northern areas which are roughly four fifths of the entire country, while Herzegovina ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), constitute an elite group ... program with a successful implimentation of that plan to create one of ...40 KB (5,809 words) - 14:53, 16 October 2021
- Ayurveda (Devanāgarī: आयुर्वॆद, the 'science ... Ayurveda remains an influential system of medicine in South Asia. The ...26 KB (3,585 words) - 06:06, 10 January 2023
- Arches are used as supports for many types of vaults, with the barrel ... Michael Clarke, The Concise Dictionary of Art Terms (Oxford University ...55 KB (8,185 words) - 23:26, 18 March 2024
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- radio and the Internet. The mission of the BBC is to inform, educate ... Its first transmission was on November 14th of that year. ...29 KB (4,446 words) - 05:21, 26 August 2023
- Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public ... interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified ...28 KB (4,023 words) - 23:51, 10 August 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... its southern parts. Since the inception of economic reforms in 1978, Jiangsu ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative ... 1971 to 1992 he was a lecturer and professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College ...58 KB (8,069 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. The Hui form the third ... dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
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- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- Natural deposits of mercury-bearing minerals, usually in the form ... Mercury and most of its compounds are highly toxic and need to be ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- ; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...67 KB (8,996 words) - 06:52, 14 June 2023
- ==Evolution of the glyph== as the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but 3 continues ...42 KB (5,963 words) - 06:44, 13 June 2023
- mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- are usually credited with being the founders of analytic philosophy. A prolific ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- == History of high-definition television == Analog high-definition ... The term high definition once described a series of television systems ...44 KB (6,466 words) - 15:48, 25 January 2023
- The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
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- Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in South America ... 1990, the country has been relatively free of the coups common to many of ...39 KB (5,549 words) - 16:43, 10 December 2023
- Protestants, Catholics, and a small number of Orthodox Christians. Although ... The Nestorians were accepted in China because of their ability to ...58 KB (8,323 words) - 21:09, 10 December 2023
- to mid 1940s, finding fame as the first of America's "teen idols ... F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Through much of his career, he also faced controversy ...40 KB (6,385 words) - 05:09, 9 April 2024
- also with arms in hand, for the overthrow of the international bourgeoisie ... The Comintern was founded after the dissolution of the Second International ...35 KB (4,964 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- abbreviated: CH), is a landlocked nation of 7.5 million people in Western ... ) translate as "Swiss Confederation," while the German name of ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
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- The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...64 KB (9,559 words) - 13:04, 4 March 2024
- material, is the explicit representation of the human body or sexual activity ... mid-twentieth century that it became a part of western mainstream culture ...30 KB (4,376 words) - 05:39, 30 November 2022
- produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, Western art, ecclesiastical ... With the decline of Rome and the ascendancy of Christianity in Europe ...41 KB (6,156 words) - 10:52, 19 December 2023
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- who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. He was ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- established in 1945 for the purpose of securing world peace. It replaced ... As an organization of governments designed to prevent war between ...64 KB (9,547 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty when ... During the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the government was split ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
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- symbolist poet and translator who became one of the major figures of the Silver ... and had an injured writing-hand for the rest of his life. He became involved ...51 KB (7,071 words) - 15:34, 30 June 2023
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- Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ... at one time was integrated into the Chola Empire. Colonized by Portugal and ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia ... A 2006 study found that Vancouver had the third highest quality of ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
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- licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing ... stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four ...49 KB (6,708 words) - 10:40, 10 March 2023
- work and released after serving five months of his sentence.]] service, or they may refuse to be a part of any combatant organization ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of -4.6. As an inferior planet ... The planet is covered with an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds and ...45 KB (7,026 words) - 17:37, 3 May 2023
- , romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... It is well-known for the elegant onion domes of Saint Basil's Cathedral ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- penalty; or grant clemency, or the lessening of the punishment, by means of ... Public debate invariable surrounds the pardoning of a criminal, despite ...35 KB (5,395 words) - 13:20, 11 March 2023
- to 1975, which mapped only 40 to 45 percent of the planet's surface. field about 1 percent as strong as that of the Earth. Surface temperatures ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 16,000 feet, (4,900 meters ... The Tibetan Empire came into existence in the seventh century when ...62 KB (9,319 words) - 23:23, 30 April 2023
- Lenin and Leon Trotsky. After the revolution of February 1917, he returned ... 1921. His strong support for and defense of the New Economic Policy (NEP ...53 KB (7,506 words) - 19:11, 19 January 2023
- transcontinental country extending over much of northern Eurasia (Asia and Europe). ... Socialist Republic (RSFSR), a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader, is the veneration ... A cult of personality is similar to apotheosis, except that it is ...57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
- It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- Salt is a mineral, composed primarily of sodium chloride, which is ... Sodium and chlorine, the two components of salt, are necessary for ...36 KB (5,357 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- is on the Pacific Ocean, while the east side of the country is on the Caribbean Sea. The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- to both capitalism and Stalinism. Consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, ... its Asian affiliates destroyed by the Empire of Japan. The survivors, in Europe ...51 KB (7,375 words) - 14:35, 22 January 2023
- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ( المملكة العربية السعودية ... The Kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of The Two Holy Mosques ...57 KB (8,635 words) - 17:04, 23 December 2022
- States, located in the north-central part of the state, near the junction ... Dallas is the main economic center of the 12 county Dallas, Fort Worth ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- . A large part of the European drainage basin empties into the North ... Much of the sea's coastal features are the result of glacial ...64 KB (9,669 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- is one of the seven emirates that constitute the United Arab Emirates ... The modern emirate of Dubai was created with the formation of the ...35 KB (5,297 words) - 17:16, 12 February 2024
- Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of ... imposed by France and England at the Treaty of Versailles. The economic disaster ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- obtains thrust by reaction to the ejection of fast-moving fluid from within ... In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- Jesus Christ, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or simply Jesus, is ... As might be expected with a man of this stature, partial understandings ...78 KB (12,289 words) - 02:54, 1 August 2022
- 01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Pyramid of the Moon in Tenochtitlán, ... society, in which people live in groups of settled dwellings comprising ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) (Felis catus) is a member of ... for at least 9,500 years, and it is one of humankind's most popular ...36 KB (5,931 words) - 01:01, 13 January 2023
- (monastērion) denotes the buildings of a community of monastics (monks ... by community rules that stipulate the gender of the inhabitants and require ...53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
- leader who served as the key architect of the October Revolution, and ... Communism's expansion into the rest of the world would be achieved ...42 KB (6,401 words) - 20:46, 3 May 2023
- ) was the codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet ... The operational goal of Barbarossa was the rapid conquest of the European ...62 KB (9,424 words) - 00:50, 18 November 2022
- Philosophy is the systematic study of the foundations of human knowledge ... Traditionally at least, it is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s ...69 KB (10,119 words) - 04:14, 24 November 2022
- again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military ... or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader ...66 KB (9,421 words) - 19:56, 29 April 2024
- Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain (Arabic: مملكة البحرين ... a wealthy nation. With a per capita GDP of $25,300 in 2006, Bahrain was ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a ... The primary functions which distinguish money are as a medium of exchange ...51 KB (7,687 words) - 16:23, 18 June 2023
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion ( "Протоколы сионских ... Scholars generally agree that the Okhrana, the secret police of the ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- there has come about, in Parade, a kind of super-realism ('sur-réalisme ... The works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions ...46 KB (6,796 words) - 23:55, 26 February 2023
- Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically ... ==History of research== ===Beginnings=== In his Dream Pool Essays of ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked South Asian nation situated ... One of the most isolated nations in the world, Bhutan is often described ...39 KB (5,985 words) - 03:39, 1 October 2023
